Faculty

Rosemary O'Leary's research centers on public management and public policy with a focus on collaboration as a leadership and management strategy.

Bonnie Johnson's research interests include civic bureaucracy, staff reports, television and citizen participation, planners working with city managers, and planning history and theory.

Dorothy Daley's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of environmental and public health policy, bureaucratic politics, public participation, and collaborative decision-making.

Sarah Deer's (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) scholarship to end violence against women focuses on the intersection of federal Indian law and victims' rights - she was named as a MacArthur Fellow in 2014.

Alesha Doan's research is guided by her interests in public policy, organizations, and gender/social equity, with a focus on the development, adoption, and implementation of reproductive policies.

Chuck Epp’s teaching and research focuses on law, social change and administrative reform, with a particular emphasis on rights and racial discrimination.

Heather Getha-Taylor's research interests center on the intersection between human resource management and collaborative governance.

Donna Ginther's major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, scientific entrepreneurship, and children's educational attainments.

Holly Goerdel’s research focuses on public management, security governance, and the effects of privatization on democracy.

Marilu Goodyear specializes in organizational analysis, organizational change, managing information and technology and public management.

Alfred Tat Kei Ho's research and teaching interests focus on state and local budgeting, performance budgeting and management, citizen participation, and e-government.

Laura Howard's work focuses on building alliances to develop and sustain human services, and she became a known strategist, expert in state financing, and cross-systems collaborator.

Rachel Krause’s research focuses on urban sustainability, particularly the adoption, diffusion, impacts of local environmental and energy policies.

Bradley Lane’s research interests focus on the effects of different incentives and interventions on sustainability in transportation.

Ward Lyles' interests center on interactions of humans, natural environments, and built environments, with attention to increasing sustainability and compassion through decision-making.

Steven Maynard-Moody's research interests include social and environmental justice in the green impact zone.

Kirk McClure's teaching and research examines housing market behavior and evaluates federal affordable housing programs.  He has served as a scholar in residence at HUD.

Joel Mendez's research and teaching interests lie in the intersection between transportation, economic development, and social justice. 

Ben Merriman's research examines issues like immigration, election law, and environmental protection, and whether the adaptive use of administrative structures can resolve policy conflicts.

John Pierce's research has primarily focused on various dimensions of the role of citizens in democratic politics.

Reggie Robinson's research interests include administrative law, local government management, public management and leadership, and voting rights law and policy.  

Shannon Portillo's research interests include social equity, organizational theory and legal mobilization with a focus on how rules and policies are carried out within public organizations. 

Larry Schroeder’s research interests focus on public finance, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and decentralized governance, particularly in developing countries.

Stacey Swearingen White's teaching and research interests focus on sustainability and environmental planning, with a recent emphasis on conditions that impel sustainability innovation. 

Hannes Zacharias bridges theory and practice in the classroom and on the ground.